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11/5/2011 Zarbin: Tribes have role in Ariz.’s water future Indian – Tribes have unfair advantage in Ariz.’s water future
11/5/2011 The Arizona Republic: Zarbin: Tribes have role in Ariz.’s water future Indian – Tribes have unfair advantage in Ariz.’s water future: Indian tribes are expected to play significant roles in central Arizona’s water future, but they get little recognition of this in the media. For instance, in the past two months, The Arizona Republic has printed columns about two new institutional reports about central Arizona’s water future, but neither article mentioned Indian tribes, much less explained the part they play in the coming drama. In “Watering the Sun Corridor: Managing Choices in Arizona’s Megapolitan Area,” issued by the Morrison Institute at Arizona State University, several hundred words are spent on the Indians, including the possibility that tribes will use 500,000 acre-feet of Colorado River water imported through the Central Arizona Project for agriculture instead of leasing it to cities for people to use.... Read More
11/16/2011 The Arizona Republic: Tribe deserves water rights
11/16/2011 The Arizona Republic: Tribe deserves water rights: The Gila River Indian Community deserves every drop of water right that it has obtained and to use the water for its exclusive benefit. It is apparent from Earl Zarbin’s Nov. 5 column in The Arizona Republic “Tribes have a role in Ariz’s water future,” that he either does not know or does not care that O’odham (Pima) people starved and died at the turn of the 20th century due to the lack of irrigation water from the Gila River to grow their crops. The Gila River was illegally diverted up stream of the reservation, despite the fact that the Gila River Indian Community had the right of prior appropriation of the river water. Zarbin should read David DeJong’s “Stealing the Gila” to learn and appreciate the tragic story of the loss of the right to the irrigation water and the effect the loss of the water had on the tribe. — David Mowry, Glendale... Read More
10/13/2011 Gallup Independent: President Shelly pushes for water settlements
10/13/2011 President Shelly pushes for water settlements By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – Navajo President Ben Shelly was in Washington Wednesday to advocate for the Navajo Generating Station, Arizona and Utah water rights settlements, and the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. Congress has funded $24 million for pre-construction and construction activities for the Navajo-Gallup pipeline. An additional $60 million will be made available for the next three years from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, according to the Navajo Nation Washington Office. ... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water, water rights
Tagged Colorado River, Gallup Independent, Kathy Helms, Larry Echo Hawk, Navajo Generating Station, Navajo Nation, Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, Peabody Coal Company, President Shelly, right to water, US Bureau of Reclamation, water rights, Window Rock
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10/12/2011 Navajo Hopi Observer: Water contamination threatens Hopi Partitioned Land
Photo: A picture taken near Black Mesa, Ariz., part of the Hopi Paritioned Land 10/12/2011 Navajo Hopi Observer: Water contamination threatens Hopi Partitioned Land: In response to the recent discovery of water contamination on Hopi Partitioned Lands (HPL), the Hopi Tribe’s Office of Range Management has capped several water wells and fenced off windmills as a public safety measure, including some used by trespassing Navajo tribal members who have not signed Accommodations Agreements (AA) to reside on HPL. Water contamination was among the issues discussed earlier this month during a Navajo AA Permittees meeting held on HPL on behalf of the Navajos who have signed a 75-year AA. These AA Navajo families legally reside on HPL with grazing permits recognized by the Hopi Tribe.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, uranium mining, Water, Water and Sanitation, water rights
Tagged Hopi Partition Land, Hopi Tribe, injury to water, navajo, Navajo Hopi Observer, Navajo Partition Land, non-signers, right to water, trespassers, water contamination
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10/12/2011 Food & Water Watch: Proposed Law Guts Water Protections, Won’t Make Us Safer
10/12/2011 Food & Water Watch: Proposed Law Guts Water Protections, Won’t Make Us Safer: Statement by Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director, Food & Water Watch: “We are appalled to hear that the House Natural Resources committee has passed the National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, which would waive federal environmental protections for Department of Homeland Security activities on federal lands in border areas. Let’s hope it doesn’t go any further than that.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water
Tagged Department of Homeland Security, Food & Water Watch, House Natural Resources Committee, National Security and Federal Lands Protection Act, right to water, safe drinking water, water protection
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10/8/2011 Gallup Independent: Udall urges continued cleanup of area’s legacy uranium sites
10/8/2011 Udall urges continued cleanup of area’s legacy uranium sites By Kathy Helms, Dine Bureau, Gallup Independent: WINDOW ROCK – U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., received commitments Thursday from three federal agencies that they will continue to work together to clean up uranium contamination on the Navajo Nation. Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission testified on the status of cleanup operations at legacy uranium mining and milling operations. The testimony was presented during a federal oversight hearing before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children’s Health and Environmental Responsibility, which Udall chairs. The senator stressed that each agency continue ongoing cleanup projects and commit to providing necessary funding for the Five-Year Plan for the Navajo Nation begun in 2007 and a Five-Year Plan begun last year for the Grants Mining District.... Read More
Posted in cancer, Climate Change, Colorado River, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, injury to water quality, Navajo Environmental Protection Agency, Nuclear power, radioactive waste, skyline mine, uranium mining, US Environmental Protection Agency, US Environmental Protection Agency Superfund, Water, Water and Sanitation, water rights
Tagged clean up, EPA, Five-Year Plan, Gallup Independent, Grants Mining District, injury to water quality, James Woolford, Kathy Helms, Navajo Nation, nuclear energy, right to water, Superfund, Superfund Remediation, Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation, Udall, uranium contamination, US Department of Energy, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, US Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Children's Health and Environmental Responsibility
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Why Governments Are on the Hook to Ensure Clean, Safe Water for Everyone: The right to water and sanitation are living documents waiting to be used for transformational change around the world
7/28/2011 Alternet: Why Governments Are on the Hook to Ensure Clean, Safe Water for Everyone: The right to water and sanitation are living documents waiting to be used for transformational change around the world: One year ago today, the United Nations General Assembly adopted an historic resolution recognizing the human right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation. Two months later, the Human Rights Council adopted a second resolution affirming that drinking water and sanitation are human rights, and setting out the new obligations and responsibilities all governments now carry to develop appropriate tools and mechanisms to progressively achieve the full realization of these rights. Together the two resolutions represent an extraordinary breakthrough in the international struggle for the right to safe clean drinking water and sanitation and a crucial milestone in the fight for water justice. ... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water, Water and Sanitation, water rights
Tagged government accountability, Human Rights Council, lack of access to clean water and sanitation, Native American, plan of action, right to safe drinking water and sanitation, right to water, Social and Cultural Rights, UN Committee on Economic, United Nations
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7/27/2011 UN General Assembly Examines Vital Human Right to Safe Drinking Water, Adequate Sanitation
7/27/2011 United Nations General Assembly GA/11123 Sixty-fifth General Assembly Plenary 114th Meeting Examines Vital Human Right to Safe Drinking Water, Adequate Sanitation: ‘Water Is the Mother of All Rights,’ Says Bolivia’s Leader, Opposing Attempts To Privatize It; Venezuela Says Wrong to Flaunt Resources While Millions Lack Them. While some strides had been made to increase access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation — now regarded as a fundamental human right — efforts must be redoubled to provide access to safe water to the more than 1 billion people without it and basic sanitation services for the more than 2 billion still in need, urged experts and delegates in the General Assembly this afternoon.... Read More
Posted in Climate Change, drought, environmental justice, fragile ecosystem, government accountability, injury to water quality, Water, Water and Sanitation, water rights
Tagged adequate sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, drought, fundamental human right, General Assembly, Horn of Africa, lack of access to water, privatization of water, right to safe drinking water, right to safe drinking water and sanitation, right to water, safe drinking water, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation, United Nations, United States
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